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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Grouping sounds, wallpapers, styles, ...
From:       Hans Meine <hans_meine () gmx ! net>
Date:       2007-08-28 9:43:18
Message-ID: 200708281143.23571.hans_meine () gmx ! net
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On Dienstag 28 August 2007, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> Here's why we should weed out the wallpapers that are shipped very well:

Thanks for this list of good arguments.  I agree 100%.

I just want to propose (again, IIRC), that some of these problems can be 
tackled by grouping stuff like wallpapers, styles etc. in a tree view instead 
of a list view.  Then, we would have sth. like:

KDE 4
+- Oxygen
+- Oxygen Alternative
\- Blue Whatever
KDE 3.x
+- Alta Badia
+- Triple Gears
\- ...
KDE 3.x Patterns [this could be even within KDE 3.x]
+- All Good People
+- The Good Times
...
Get Hot New Stuff (your downloads)
+- [download more now]
+- Pink Lady
+- Tron
\- Teletubbies

And of course the stuff is properly shipped within kdebase, kdeartwork, 
kde3wallpapers, GHNS etc..

There are multiple benefits:

1) Old stuff is not confused with new.

2) The group names can be made to match the packages they are shipped with.  
(E.g. if a user installs the "matrix wallpapers" packages via his package 
manager, it is the best user experience AFAICS if he/she gets a "Matrix" 
group in the wallpapers section - the user will be able to remember why/how 
he installed this, know how to remove and or deinstall the wallpaper, and so 
on.)

[2a) This allows us to provide a kde3artwork package which should hopefully 
make many people who complained in this thread happy.]

3) Existing stuff can be grouped, too (e.g. wallpaper images vs. tiles, and 
much more).

The same could/should go for icons, screensavers, styles, sounds and all that 
stuff.  "Artwork" basically. ;-)

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